Fortunately, she had read in an ancient book a prescription that was not harmful to the body and could prevent pregnancy. As long as you take the medicine for five consecutive days after menstruation, you can prevent pregnancy for one year. This is what she understands about the imperial concubine.

After planning, it was also decided to enter the palace as one of the ceremonial rituals.

Lu Wanning's menstruation was at the end of the month. As soon as her menstruation was over, Lu Wanning had someone get the medicine mentioned in the prescription and start taking it.

After settling the matter, Lu Wanning began to choose the candidates to bring with him to the palace.

Although the two eldest maids beside her, Yunxiang and Bai Zhi, have served her since they were young and their loyalty is unquestionable, they are both older than her, they are already eighteen this year, and both of them are servants of the Zhongyong Hou Mansion.

Last year, their families consulted Mrs. Tao and arranged a marriage for them. Naturally, she could no longer bring them into the palace.

So the maid she brought into the palace this time could only choose from four second-class maids.

These four second-class maids are all fifteen or sixteen years old, and they are usually very smart in their work. Lu Wanning has been secretly observing the four second-class maids since she decided to enter the palace.

Among the four, her favorites were Qingzhi and Baitan. Qingzhi was calm and Baitan was smart. However, she didn't want to force them, so before making a decision, she called the four of them in front of her and asked them about their wishes.

"You also know that I will enter the palace soon. Yunxiang and Bai Zhi's families have already arranged their marriages for them. It is inconvenient for me to bring them into the palace again. The four of you have served me for several years. I intend to

I want to pick two of you four to bring to the palace, is there any one of you four who is willing?"

The four second-class maids already had an idea when they knew that Lu Wanning was going to enter the palace. They knew that the maid that the young lady would take with her when she entered the palace would definitely be chosen from among the four of them.

Among the four, Qingzhi and Qingdai had already made up their mind to follow Lu Wanning into the palace, while Bai Tan and Baimao had been hesitant.

At this time, after Lu Wanning asked, both Qingzhi and Qingdai immediately expressed their willingness to follow Lu Wanning into the palace.

After Bai Mao hesitated for a long time, he also expressed his willingness to follow Lu Wanning into the palace.

Seeing that the other three people had expressed their opinions, Bai Tan gritted his teeth and made a decision, saying that he was also willing to enter the palace.

Lu Wanning took note of the four people's demeanor and performance, and finally decided to bring Qingzhi and Qingdai into the palace.

The palace is in crisis every step of the way, and if you are not careful, you may be doomed. The people around her must be willing to follow her into the palace.

Although she is optimistic about Bai Tan, since Bai Tan is not so willing to enter the palace, she will naturally not choose her to enter the palace again.

On the eighth day of April, the show girls sent from the local area went through the preliminary selection, and the original 5,000 people were eliminated to just over 300 people.

These more than 300 people need to live in the palace for more than a month, and then based on their temperament, style, intelligence, stupidity, virtuousness, and the emperor's preferences, 50 people who are "beautiful and intelligent" are selected from the Queen Mother and the Queen.

Together with the emperor and others, they personally selected people they liked and filled the harem.

Naturally, noble ladies from the capital like Lu Wanning do not need to be with the five thousand people. They only need to wait at home and enter the palace with the selected three hundred people to participate in the next two selections.

On the tenth day of April, Lu Wanning and other noble ladies from the capital entered the palace together with more than 300 local beauties selected this time.

Lu Wanning could not bring the maid into the palace this time. She could only let the maid into the palace after she was selected.

Before Lu Wanning entered the palace, Mrs. Tao almost burst into tears. Fortunately, Lu Simo happened to be at home during the holidays, so Lu Wanning felt a little relieved.

Lu Wanning and other beautiful ladies who entered the palace were all arranged to live in the Chuxiu Palace in the northeast corner of the palace, with four beautiful ladies in one room.

The nun who led the way led the beautiful ladies to her house one by one according to their names that had been assigned long ago.

The house Lu Wanning was assigned was very good in terms of location, orientation and room layout.

Aunt Wei, who was leading the way, led Lu Wanning into the house and said with a smile: "Miss Lu, this is the room assigned to you. Also sharing the room with you are Xu Xiunv and Lu Xiunv, as well as Weng from the Hanlin bachelor's family.

Miss."

"The Imperial Concubine has specially greeted us before and asked us to take more care of you. If you are dissatisfied with anything, you can tell us and we will try our best to help you solve it within our capabilities."

After listening to Nanny Wei's words with a smile, Lu Wanning said with a smile: "The arrangements by the nuns are very appropriate. I have nothing to be dissatisfied with. I will have to ask the nuns to take care of me in the next month or so."

With that said, Lu Wanning stuffed the purse she had already prepared in her sleeve into the hands of Nanny Wei, "If you have any thoughts, Nanny, take it and drink tea."

"Miss Lu is too polite." Nanny Wei said this, but she did not refuse and took the purse in her hand.

"If Miss Lu doesn't have any instructions here, and I still have something to do, I won't delay Miss Lu to take care of it."

Lu Wanning nodded, "Let me give it to mama."

Lu Wanning sent Mother Wei out, stood at the door and said: "Mom, go slowly."

When Nanny Wei left and Lu Wanning turned around to enter the house, another beautiful girl in the room was also led over by Nanny. Although the person who came was not familiar to her, she knew her from the same place in the capital.

Weng Qian, Miss Weng from the Hanlin bachelor’s family whom Aunt Wei just mentioned.

Lu Wanning's understanding of Weng Qian was limited to hearing that her piano skills were superb, not inferior to Mr. Liang's, and nothing else. Now that they met and they lived in the same room, Lu Wanning took the lead in saying hello.

, "Miss Weng."

Weng Qian was beautiful, but had a cold temperament, and she seemed to be the same way. After Lu Wanning said hello, she just nodded lightly to Lu Wanning.

Lu Wanning looked at Weng Qian who was passing by her and smiled. Since they didn't want to talk to her, there was no need for her to warm up to her cold butt.

After that, Lu Wanning entered the room and Weng Qian each packed up the things they brought into the palace without disturbing each other.

When the two of them had almost finished cleaning up, the other two beautiful ladies in the house were led over by their nanny.

Xu Xiunv and Lu Xiunv, who came last, have their own unique looks. The only thing is that they are very beautiful. They should both be the best among this group of beautiful girls.

Lu Wanning looked at the two of them, then thought about herself and Weng Qian, and couldn't help but laugh in her heart. This arrangement by the mothers was quite interesting.

After Xu Xiunv and Lu Xiunv entered the house, they came over to greet Lu Wanning and Weng Qian.

"Hello, sisters, I am Xu Lingyan from Yongning Mansion."

"I am Lu Rui from Baoning Mansion. What do you call your two sisters?"

Lu Wanning smiled at the two of them and said, "My name is Lu Wanning."

"Weng Qian." After Weng Qian said her name coldly, she took out her book and started reading.

Xu Lingyan and Lu Rui couldn't help but glance at Weng Qian, but Weng Qian suddenly didn't notice.
Chapter completed!